What ㈻ means
It labels a Japanese legal entity that establishes schools. The ㈻ school corporation mark is formal shorthand for 学校法人.
Unicode’s compatibility decomposition is “(学).” Compatibility normalization can replace the single glyph with those three ordinary characters.
Compact legal shorthand; it reads like an institutional label.
In ordinary prose, spell out 学校法人; ㈻ reads like a form label.
Don't confuse it with
2(学)
㊫㈻ vs (学): the first is one character; the second is its three-character compatibility form.
Circled ideograph Study
㈻ versus ㊫: the circled form means “study”; ㈻ is the Japanese institutional mark.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㈻ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ㈻
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 323B, then Alt+X to get ㈻.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “parenthesized ideograph study”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 323b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
㈻CSS
\323BJapanese input method
Enter がっこう, Japanese for “school,” and check conversion candidates for ㈻ or (学); availability depends on the input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㈻
HTML hex
㈻
CSS content
content: "\323B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%88%BB
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.